WHEN IS AN ALDERMAN LIKE AN EGG?
LONDON, November 12
If it takes throe minutes to boil an egg, for how long should an alderman speak If There may seem to be little connection between tbe two subjects, •though on more than one occasion civic fathers have been described as “hardboiled” ; but the new Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent (Alderman Barber) has brought the egg and the alderman into one classification, and he lias decided' that after a period of live minutes, any alderman is well and truly ready to come out of the pot—that is to say, the oratorical pot. “Here we have a five-minute egg boiler;” lie said, producing l a sand-glass immediately after his election as Lord Mayor. “During council debates I intend to ring a bell after four minutes to indicate that there is a minute lo go. I hope everyone will obey the standing orders and finish his speech in that time.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17116, 23 November 1929, Page 12
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156WHEN IS AN ALDERMAN LIKE AN EGG? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17116, 23 November 1929, Page 12
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